Understanding the Indian Languages: 
            Challenges & Opportunities
                A Language Diversity and Relatedness Perspective
                        Anoop Kunchukuttan
               Machine Translation Group, Microsoft, Hyderabad
         Atal FDP on Artificial Intelligence in Natural Language Processing, KIIT
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                         18 October 2020
    Outline
    • Introduction to Indian Languages
    • Opportunities & Challenges in Indic NLP
    • Utilizing Relatedness between Indian Languages
    • Getting Started with Indic NLP
      • IndicNLP Catalog
      • IndicNLP Library
      • IndicNLP Suite
    • Summary
          Diversity of Indian Languages
         Highly multilingual country 
         Greenberg Diversity Index 0.9
      • 8 languages in the world’s top 20 languages
      • 22 scheduled languages 
      • 30 languages with more than 1 million speakers
      • 125 million English speakers
      • 1600 dialects
                                                                                                                    Source: Quora
                                                                                  Sources: Wikipedia, Census of India 2011
           There is also unity in Indian languages
                                        Related Languages
           Related by Genealogy                                     Related by Contact
               Language Families                                        Linguistic Areas
        Dravidian, Indo-European, Turkic                              Indian Subcontinent, 
                                                                  Standard Average European
          Related languages may not belong to the same language family!                            4